Spring is here. As is our 50th reunion, only weeks away. As I write these notes, we have 250 classmates expected and 400 or more total attendance. It’s not too late to sign up. It’s also not too late to be part of the reunion’s virtual art gallery. Our deadline for digital image submission is May 15. Some of our future contributors have shared updated news. Roger Arvid Anderson wrote from San Francisco that he had taken more than 32,000 images for the year after 9/11, in a journey that took him from sea to shining sea—Provincetown, Massachusetts, to Santa Monica, California. The project is called Star-Spangled. Roger hopes these images will become part of the 9/11 Museum. He is also looking for sponsors to help support a limited-edition printing. In addition, Roger has an online book site, where he has several books. John Pilling plans to exhibit a few photos of his more photogenic building projects, as well as a mix of pastels and photos. John shared sad news as well: His wife, Francine Pennino, died in January after a six-year struggle with Alzheimer’s. Cathy and Warren Cooke just returned from Amazonia, where Warren had many photo opportunities with birds, monkeys and marmosets. Other recent bird shot journeys included northern Minnesota and Belize. He and Cathy welcomed their first grandson, to join three granddaughters. The grandson is named Warren, but after U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren. Sorry, Dad. Stephen Carley is another expected contributor. He noted, “During my years of recovery from and after practice of law, I have taken up visual art, primarily oil painting.” Steve attended the University of Virginia School of Law, graduating in 1975, and was in private practice in California and North Carolina for 35 years. Other digital images are expected from Jim Lawrie, Eric Hatch, Joe Sack, Alex Chisholm, David Rossman and David Peck. Two longer letters, near essays, of news arrived from Daniel Szakonyi, a sculptor who has lived in France for almost 50 years, and from John Melski. Both life essays will be added to our new class website, dartmouth68.org, and we hope many other classmates will consider similar submissions. Back to John: He had a liver transplant years ago and is doing very well. He and Linda are planning a jaunt to Paris to visit the Musee d’Orsay, and have loved musicals such as Wicked (which they have seen three times) and Hamilton.

Be sure to read in the class newsletter and on the class website Dave Dibelius’s write-up of the big East ski mini-reunion at Okemo in Vermont. We had 13 classmates, three spouses, one ’69 and one casualty—our first such incident during a skiing mini-reunion—when Burt Quist fell and fractured the upper end of his tibia.

Two recent deaths to mourn: Allan Johnson and Adele Hedges, wife of Dan Hedges.

Reminder: We have a new SurveyMonkey class survey that asks, What do you think about Dartmouth expanding its undergraduate enrollment? The survey can be found at www.survey monkey.com/r/7ZVD2CL.

—David Peck, 16 Overlook Road, Plymouth, MA 02360; davidbpeck@aol.com